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  • Bicchu Tamashima Entsuji Temple
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    4.0
    19 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Tamashimakashiwajima 451
    A 15-minute drive from the Tamashima Interchange on the Sanyo Expressway. A famous temple of Soto Sect Buddhism known as the place where monk and poet Ryokan trained during his younger days in the mid-Edo period. The temple is situated atop a small hill and on the grounds you'll find a zen garden, and stately temple buildings with thatched roofs including the Ryokan-do Hall, and the Zazen-do Hall. The area is also known as Entsuji Temple Park and you can enjoy beautiful flowers throughout the seasons including cherry blossoms and azaleas. When the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, they hold the Ryokan Tea Festival celebrating the virtues of Ryokan. In the fall they hold the Ryokan Festival which includes a children's sketch competition, tea ceremonies, and dedications of song and dance.

    絢爛豪華な寺院を想像していましたが、むき出しの岩肌の上に茅葺のこじんまりとした本堂。自然石を利用した石庭。逆に江戸時代にタイムスリップした感覚にもなる境内一円。良寛さんのイメージにピッタリのお寺でした。

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  • Kojima Jeans Street
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Kojimajino
    This specialty street is located approximately a 15-minute walk from Kojima Station on the JR Seto-Ohashi Line. The birthplace of jeans production in Japan, there are many Kojima jeans makers centered on the Ajino Shopping Street with its retro atmosphere, and it is appealing for the many unique jean products. In addition, in the 400 meters from in front of the former Nozaki family residence to Ajino No. 2 Park, the asphalt is paved in blue, and the charm of jeans is scattered everywhere around the place called the holy place of jeans.
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  • Mitsui Outlet Park Kurashiki
    Shopping
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Kotobukichou 12-3
    Located approximately a three-minute walk from the north exit of JR Kurashiki Station, it is one of the largest outlet malls in the Chugoku region. It is conveniently close to the Kurashiki Interchange. The open two-story building has about 120 shops including fashion, sundries and sports equipment stores. There are also stroller rentals, nursing rooms, diaper changing rooms and children's rooms, making it a shopping mall for the whole family to enjoy all day long.
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  • Life Park Kurashiki Science Center
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    4.5
    14 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Fukudachou Koshinden 940
    Life Park Kurashiki Science Center is a multipurpose facility located in Koshinden, Fukuda-cho in the city of Kurashiki, just north of Mizushima Ryokuchi Fukuda Park. Kurashiki Science Center contains a planetarium that projects images of the entire sky, while the Kurashiki Archeological Center collects and exhibits artifacts dug up in the city. The Kurashiki Civic Learning Center is used for public lectures, while the Kurashiki Information and Learning Center and the Kurashiki Education Center offer classes and training in various fields.

    プラネタリウムがリニューアルをしたそうで、かなり集客アップしていると 新聞で読みました。 入場料が500円にアップしていますが、65歳以上は無料とのこと。 新しくなって見ごたえがあると友人とその孫が言ってました。 私たちは4月に一度行きましたが、月曜日は休館日でした。 平日は、午後の上映しかしていないようなので、 次回はきちんと調べてから伺います。

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  • Shingon Sect Bekkaku Honzan Yugasan Rendaiji Temple
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    4.0
    16 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Kojimayuga 2855
    This temple is located in the Kojima Yuga area of Kurashiki City. It was built in 733 by Gyoki with the 11-headed Kanzeon Bodhisattva as its principal image. It is believed to by the sacred mountain for the mixing of Buddhism and Shinto that is adjacent to the Yugasan Shrine known as the head temple for warding off evil.

    躁本殿に日本一とか書かれた厄除け大不動が鎮座しています。大きさと、ギラギラ輝く背後の火炎に圧倒されます。宝物館では円山応挙の絵を含め、多くの襖絵や壁絵が展示されています。飾られた生け花も見事です。

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  • Gion Shrine
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    4.0
    13 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Shimotsui 1-13-16
    A six-minute drive from the Kojima Interchange on the Seto Chuo Expressway. Perched on a hill on the western side of Shimotsui Port, this shrine is on the grounds of the former Nagahama Castle. It was founded during the Muromachi period as Nagahama-miya Shrine to house the local tutelary god of the castle but then in the Edo period the god Gion Okami was transferred to the shrine and the name of the shrine changed to Gion Shrine. As a guardian of the sea, Kitamaebune shipping route sailors donated the tamagaki fence that surrounds the shrine as a prayer for safety and it bears the names of the sailors. The grounds of the shrine offer a great view point of both the Seto Ohashi Bridge and the port. Around here, you will find many monuments engraved with poems about Shimotsui and Setouchi composed by poets and novelists who visited this town.

    須佐之男命を祭神とする古式に則る神社。境内には昭和天皇を始めとする歌碑句碑がたくさんある。瀬戸大橋と瀬戸内海の眺めは絶景。

  • Kurashiki City Oyama Meijin Memorial Museum
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    4.0
    10 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Chuo 1-18-1
    A 20-minute walk from JR Kurashiki Station. This memorial museum is dedicated to Kurashiki local 15th Lifetime Meijin shogi chess master, Yasuharu Oyama. Master Oyama was an A-class ranked shogi player for 45 years and received five lifetime titles. He was one of the greatest and most unprecedented shogi players ever recorded. In the museum you'll find a number of championship cups and hanging scrolls written in his hand as well as other mementos on display including his trademark glasses. To further promote Master Oyama's passion for teaching and diffusion of shogi special shogi classes for children and shogi workshops for adults are held at the museum.

    午前9時からの開館で、入館料無料とありがたい。 私が少年の頃は、名人と言えば大山名人だったので、たまたま見つけたこの記念館に興味津々で訪問した。 升田名人との対局の写真の他、たくさんの写真や棋譜が展示され、将棋の勝負の緊張感を感じることができた。 記念品も販売されている。

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  • Ohara Museum of Art Museum Shop
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    3.5
    7 Reviews
    Shopping
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Chuo 1-1-15 Ohara Art Museum
    A 15-minute walk from JR Kurashiki Station. A shop located within Ohara Museum of Art, Japan's first western modern art museum, situated on the corner of Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter. They sell art books and merchandise such as stationary decorated with motifs of the art in the museum's collection. In particular they offer a wide selection of postcards decorated with the works of artists including El Greco, Monet, Gauguin, and Picasso. Also popular is the Original Book Tin Cookies which come in a tin shaped like a book and decorated with a print of a classic novel. You can enter the shop without entering the museum.

    今回は美術館には寄らず、美観地区散策の際にミュージアムショップにだけ寄りました。 25年以上前は、美術館や展覧会でポストカードなど買うと100円くらいしましたが、 その当時は、こんなにおしゃれなミュージアムショップなどはなかったけれど 大原美術館は美術館本体の内容もお値段以上でしたが（笑）、 びっくりするくらいポストカードとかが安くって、たくさん買いました。 ほとんどは手紙など送って使い切ってしま...

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  • Former Yunoki Residence (Saiso-tei)
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    4.0
    6 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Tamashima 3-8-25
    A 15-minute drive from the Tamashima Interchange on the Sanyo Expressway. This is the former residence of the Yunoki family who served the lord of the Bicchu-Matsuyama Domain. The house is registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. It was built during the mid-Edo period and was sometimes used to house the lord of the domain. Including a Yakui-mon gate (Onari-mon gate, for guests of importance), a traditional step-up entrance way, and a drawing room reminiscent of a tea-ceremony arbor, the house is a perfect historical specimen of the architecture of a mid-Edo period village headman's domicile. It is also the house where clan leader Kumata Ataka took full responsibility for his domain's betrayal during the end of the Edo period and commit suicide. The former main section of the house has been restored and is now used as a learning establishment.

    とても静かで落ち着いた場所です。 釘隠しが、兎の形をしていて岐阜の高山陣屋のものととてもにていました。備中松山藩主の小堀遠州になにかゆかりがあるのでしょうか。

  • Kojima Boat Race (Kojima Boat Race Stadium)
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Kojimamotohamachou 6-3
    Kojima Boat Racing is a motorboat racing course located along Prefectural Route 21 in Motohama-cho, Kojima, in the city of Kurashiki. It fronts on the Inland Sea, and it is unusual in the degree to which the rising and falling tides affect the water’s surface. The racing course holds family-centered events, such as Boat Kids Park.
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  • Tazuchinoura Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Shimotsuitanoura 1-13-30
    A ten-minute drive from Kojima Interchange on the Seto Chuo Expressway. This park is right underneath Seto Ohashi Bridge and offers a great view of the bridge. On clear days you can look across the water to Kagawa Prefecture and on days when they're holding the Seto Ohashi Bridge Illumination events you'll find lots of couples enjoying the view of the evening scenery. There's a monument engraved with a poem composed by Taira no Yukimori (grandson of Taira no Kiyomori) who lost his life in the Battle of Dan-no-ura. The adjacent Tanoura Park Center offers toilets and a rest area. It's also home to a well-known fishing spot.
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  • Tamashima no Mori
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Tamashimaotoshima 8255-1
    This comprehensive athletic park is located in the Otoshima area of Tamashima, Kurashiki City. Besides facilities such as a track and field with nighttime lighting, baseball field, tennis court, gymnasium and outdoor 50 meters by 10 course pool, there is also playground equipment and a plaza, and the park is used for sports competitions and as a place for residents to relax.
  • Sami Beach
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Tamashimakurosaki
    This coast is located in the Tamashima Kurosaki area of Kurashiki City. Made up of western and eastern beach area, it was where the first shore reclamation work in Japan took place over six years from 1983. Sami Beach was set up, and the beautiful sandy beach that has been chosen as one of Japan’s top 100 beaches is visited by many beachgoers.
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  • Sakazu Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Sakadu 1556
    This park is located in Sakazu, Kurashiki City. It has a multipurpose field, outdoor pool, plaza and large playground equipment. There are water distribution ponds, water gates and irrigation canals under the theme of water and cherry blossoms, and it is popular as a cherry blossom viewing spot in the spring when the approximately 500 trees bloom.
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  • Seto Ohashi Bridge Cruise
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    4.0
    4 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Kojimaekimae 3-23
    A five-minute drive from the Kojima Interchange on the Seto Chuo Expressway. Come and take a sight-seeing cruise launching out of Kojima Kanko Port with no prior reservations needed. You can see some of the various large and small islands of the Seto Inland Sea and get an up-close look at the amazing Seto Ohashi Bridge. The cruise takes you from the Kojima Kanko Port to Yoshima Island while looking at the cable-stayed bridge towards Hitsuishi and Iwakuro Islands to the right, turns around on the northern shore of Yoshima Island and then returns to the port passing directly under the truss bridge and cable-stayed bridge. The trip takes approximately 45 minutes. They also have tours where you can see the evening view of the Seto Ohashi bridge and the factory night skyline and even a special New Year's cruise to see the first sunrise from the water (all require reservation).

    5月の連休後の平日に行ったので、3人以上集まらないと出航しないため(予約はできない)だめかなと思っていたが4人になったので乗れました！10:00から1時間毎に3時迄出航予定ですが3人以下ならでません。その点が不便だと思いますが、土、日曜、祝日は結構集まるらしい。45分間で児島港から鷲羽山を見上げ松島と釜島の間を通り与島の手前で瀬戸大橋の下を通過します。その後、橋を回りこんでユータンして戻ります。4...

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  • Seto Ohashi Spa Resort
    Accommodations / Hot Spring
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Kojimashionasu 3777
    This hotel and spa resort is located along National Route 430 in the Kojima Shionasu area of Kurashiki City. With a rotenburo (open-air bath) and medicinal bath in the inner baths, it has various baths, salt sauna, mist bedrock bath, and heated pool. In addition, there are amusement facilities such as a television corner and karaoke room, rental rooms and a restaurant, and it also holds events including live concerts.
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  • Nakayama Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Kojimaogawachou 2831
    This park is located along Prefectural Route 21 in the Kojima Ogawa area of Kurashiki City. Besides a baseball field with equipment for night games, athletic field and tennis court, it also has facilities such as a gymnasium where you can do archery and a fitness room. In addition, there is a square with large playground equipment and an observation platform.
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  • Fukusen Main Restaurant
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    4.0
    10 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Shimotsuitanoura 2-8-39
    A three-minute drive from the Kojima Interchange on the Seto Chuo Expressway. This restaurant specializing in sushi and other traditional Japanese cuisine is located near the Shimotsui Fishing Port. The fresh caught seasonal seafood is brought in twice daily from Shimotsui Fishing Port, in the morning and in the afternoon, ensuring that you can always enjoy the freshest seafood. They boast cuisine made with Shimotsui's specialty octopus and we recommend their TakoTako (Octopus) Meal allowing you to enjoy octopus prepared in a variety of ways. Also popular is their specialty Octopus Rice, made with fine cut octopus and lightly seasoned wild plants cooked together, and their Fukusen Meal made with seasonal ingredients.

    何回も お世話になってます。 今日は 牛カツを 頂きました。 美味しかったです。 ご飯は 干し梅のカリカリ と 枝豆の 混ぜご飯も夏らしく 美味しいです。

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  • Mt. Washu
    Travel / Tourism
    Kurashiki-shi, Okayama-ken
    A 133 meter tall mountain located in Setonaikai National Park, known as Japan's first national park. The mountain came to be called “Washu” (“eagle wing”) because it resembles an eagle's outstretched wings. From high up on the mountain, visitors can get a sweeping view of the calm Seto Inland Sea and the 50-some islands of various sizes which dot its waters, as well as the Seto-ohashi Bridge. The view from here at night is particularly beautiful and has also been selected as one of Japan's 100 best sunsets.
  • Sami Beach
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Tamashimakurosaki
    A 20-minute taxi ride from Shin-Kurashiki Station. A beach located on the southwestern tip of Kurashiki City which has been selected for inclusion in a list of Japan's 100 Best Beaches. This beach is also said to be the birthplace of leisure ocean swimming and beach going in Japan. Visited by large numbers of people year round, here you can enjoy a beach situated amidst the calm beauty of the Seto Inland Sea. The western beach, Japan's first artificial beach created in 1989, is also worth a look. Conveniently accessible, visitors can drive their cars right up next to the beach. In addition to swimming, visitors can also enjoy relaxing fishing. A beach festival and other events are held during the swimming season when a south seas resort atmosphere hangs in the air.
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Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter Around Mt. Washu and Kojima
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Overshadowed by Hiroshima to the west and the Kansai region to the east, Okayama is an easy spot to miss but a nature-rich gem where the Seto Inland Sea laps at its toes and peach and grape farms complete its interior. One of Japan’s Three Great Gardens, Koraku-en in Okayama city is well worth a visit before progressing to Kurashiki, where preserved wooden Edo buildings line the picturesque canal.

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